Wedding anniversary
In any season, as a couple or in the presence of your family and friends, celebrating your wedding anniversary in Alençon in the home of a couple of saints: Louis and Zélie Martin, is perhaps the most beautiful gift you can offer to your couple. To allow you to welcome each other in the best possible way and to accompany you in this process of thanksgiving, do not hesitate to make yourself known.
For your visit to Alençon, you will be given the opportunity to experience mass near the Martin's marital bedroom. If you make yourself known in advance, it can be celebrated for you, you can renew your marriage promises, and you will also be offered the opportunity to be blessed with the relics of the holy Martin spouses. After this time of thanksgiving, you will be able to receive a document that will formalize your visit to the Alençon sanctuary and the sanctuary's prayer for your couple. Please also propose an offering in the boxes or at the terminals provided for this purpose. For all this, it is necessary to make yourself known by this form.
Mass is celebrated in the Sainte-Thérèse chapel (adjoining the Maison Martin) every day at noon, except Sundays, and except Mondays in the winter period (October to May inclusive) when the Maison Martin is closed. For information, the diocese of Séez asks for an indicative offering of 18 euros for a mass intention.
Several spiritual proposals
Thanksgiving Mass
In the Sainte-Thérèse chapel, which opens onto the bedroom of Saints Louis and Zélie, mass will be celebrated in thanksgiving for your couple, either by a priest from the sanctuary or, if necessary, by a priest who would accompany you in your pilgrimage.
Renewal of marriage commitments
During the Thanksgiving Mass or during a time of prayer, a priest, a deacon or a lay person invites you to renew your marriage commitments before God.
Blessing of the spouses with the relics of Saints Louis and Zélie
You are invited to receive God's blessing through the relics of Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, either at the end of the mass or during a prayer after the veneration of the relics.
teachings
Louis and Zélie are witnesses of holiness for couples and families today. You can deepen the theme of your choice (work, education, money, family relations, bereavement, illness, life in the Church, etc.), with a priest, a deacon or a volunteer from the sanctuary (on request, from 15 people).
Pilgrims hostelry
The Hôtellerie des Pilgrims can welcome you with its 21 rooms and 66 beds with private bathrooms and toilets, its dining room, its conference room fully soundproofed and equipped with video projection, its multipurpose room, its garden and its chapel. completely renovated in its original state of 1830.
From 30 people and depending on the availability of the place, we can reserve the hotel exclusively for you and adapt our places and our organization to the success of your birthday. However, the house remains a hotel for pilgrims, with a spirit of welcome at the service of the discovery of the sanctuary of Alençon.
A wedding anniversary is also celebrated with a meal or a careful buffet. We work with several caterers in Alençon who can put together a tailor-made meal for you. The table service is provided by the Hôtellerie team.
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Support the shrine
The generosity of donors helps us carry out the projects of the shrine:
• Spread the message Saints Louis and Zélie Martin and Saint Thérèse
• To welcome a growing number of pilgrims
• Organise about ten events per year at the service of couples, families, people with diverse life realities, and to make them accessible even to the most modest incomes.
